One of the best books I've ever read...

Code by Charles Petzold

I picked up this book earlier this year and have now bought a copy for almost everyone of my friends and family, the ones that will pick up a book and read it. It keeps everything really basic and I've been able to use it's examples to teach binary math and the basics of computing to eight year old kids. But don't think it can't teach or help you brush up on your own skills.

Not in the spirt of our founding fathers...

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

--Benjamin Franklin

"One way of life (Our Democracy) is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression.

The second way of life (Communism) is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio; fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. "

--President Truman (1947)

I want all you jacks to do a little homework assignment. Go ask your Grandparents to describe what rights differentiated the US/UK from the USSR.

When I hear my uncle say "I've done nothing wrong, why should I care if they spy on me", I want to bitch slap him...